Depending on who you ask, there are plenty of skills a great hospital leader needs in their toolbox to be successful. To be a leader others respect and look to in good times and bad, it helps to focus on the finish line, but also know your raison d’etr…
Identifying the obstacles to achieving healthcare system goals — including positive outcomes and patient satisfaction, sourcing and retaining quality talent, and getting payers to stay current on reimbursements — is the first step to organizations movi…
In the wake of shootings across the U.S., about 50 leaders of some of the nation’s largest health systems and hospitals are pledging efforts to address gun violence.
Lynda Young, MD, and Elvira Guardiola were named chair and vice chair of Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health’s board of trustees, respectively.
William Peck, MD, the former dean and executive vice chancellor of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, passed away on Feb. 22 at age 89.
Hospital C-suite leaders have a lot of balls to juggle daily, but they should know that while they are keeping their eyes on their priority responsibilities, everyone else in the organization is looking to them for leadership. This is especially true i…
Ten days before releasing his budget proposal, President Joe Biden contrasted his administration’s efforts to lower healthcare costs with what he anticipates will be Republicans’ preliminary plans to cut federal healthcare programs.
Hospital CEO exits hit a high in January, with 23 departures announced being the highest CEO turnover across 29 industries, according to one new analysis.
Physicians and other health experts are emphasizing the need to focus on preventing the next disease outbreak and eliminate politics from science in response to the U.S. Energy Department’s new conclusion that a mishap at a Chinese laboratory was the m…
Federal officials said Feb. 27 they are creating new divisions within the HHS Office for Civil Rights as part of efforts to shrink a growing backlog of healthcare investigations.
